Archaeology Notes

Event ID 666486

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ26NW 3.14 223 696.

A portion of a sculptured slab of reddish sandstone, 17ins by 10ins, bearing on one side two contiguous rows of incised diagonal fretwork, from Drainie (parish name centred NJ 22 68) was donated to RMS (NMAS) in 1885.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1885.

No. 14. The fragmentary remains of a Class 3 slab of sandstone, measuring 0.45m x 0.27m x 0.04m, and bearing 2 panels of key pattern in incised lines. Found in the old churchyard 1884. Presented to the NMAS by the Rev Alexander Gordon, 1885. Now in RMS Acc. No. IB.118.

Information from R Jones 1980.